"Giulio F."
Thank you for the advices, I've just installed all the binary of United linux an now I can run scim under a terminal (rxvt).
I recommend to use mlterm or xiterm instead of rxvt because rxvt doesn't support UTF-8.
I'm studying chinese so I'm not very comfortable with all the options written in chinese in the dialogue box...
Start scim with LC_MESSAGES set to a locale for your preferred language instead of Chinese. For example: LC_MESSAGES=it_IT.UTF-8 scim As scim doesn't have Italian translations, you will see English as fallback, but not Chinese anymore. If you are not yet comfortable with may Chinese messages, I suggest to set your default language to Italian and LC_CTYPE to Chinese. I.e. either edit /etc/sysconfig/language to contain RC_LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 RC_LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 and all other RC_* variables in that file unset or put export LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 export LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 unset LC_ALL in your ~/.profile if you want to do it for one user only. For more details about locale settings see http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/locales.html and the sub-sections there.
so when I start scim all seems ok: with ctrl-space I can activate the small window in which I can see all the characters that corresponding to the pinyin written but when I try to select one of them (with space or with the corresponding number) I can't see the character on the terminal.(all disappear)
Works for me if I start rxvt like
LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.GB2312 XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM rxvt &
How do you start your rxvt? Remember that rxvt doesn't support UTF-8.
If you use GB2312 encoding, you won't be able to use Italian accented
characters. Therefore I think it is best to use UTF-8 locales
as described above and use mlterm or xiterm instead of rxvt.
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Mike Fabian